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Beetlejuice star Winona Ryder admits she felt 'lucky that she was considered a weirdo' growing up in the film industry as she alludes to Me Too movement and says her identity 'protected her'


Winona Ryder has admitted she felt 'lucky' to have been considered a 'weirdo' while growing up in the film industry, as she reflected on the Me Too movement in a new interview.

During the chat, Winona recalled staying with three young actress in their twenties while filming 1988 movie Heathers, telling how she witnessed some 'really humiliating stuff' that was 'not OK at all', adding that the 'lines were so blurry' in the 80s. The Stranger Things star added that working with kids who were the same age as he as she navigated the industry in the 80s made her realise how 'unregulated it was', with the thespian noting that she 'never had an HR meeting until #MeToo!' I always felt lucky that I was considered kind of a weirdo for enough time … I was still around really inappropriate behaviour' [Winona pictured in her first big film role in 1986's Lucas, aged 15]

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